Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing, Soviet officials had insisted that Andropov was recovering. For another, no amount of warning and contingency planning renders the actual event routine when the deceased is the leader of the Soviet Union. So it was with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev-all of whom were, like Yuri Andropov, a long time dying, and all of whose deaths occasioned not just obituaries but portentous talk of epochs and turning points. If Andropov's passing occasioned anxiety as well, it was because questions the experts have been asking for so long could still not be answered...
...comfort from the fact that it was Friday. Many turned on their radios, expecting the usual mix of news, pop music and light entertainment. What they heard instead were the melancholy strains of Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. Only 15 months before, such symphonic tributes had signaled the death of Leonid Brezhnev. Now the music was playing again. A Soviet office worker said it all: "Someone has died up there...
...this the "Iron Lady"-so christened by Leonid Brezhnev-who used to rival her good friend Ronald Reagan in anti-Soviet sentiments and rhetoric? Only four months ago, while on a visit to Washington, Thatcher had delivered some of her harshest invective ever against the U.S.S.R., accusing Moscow of conducting "a modern version of the early tyrannies of history." Yet things soon changed. Reagan's invasion, against Thatcher's advice, of the former British colony of Grenada and his heavy counterattacks in Lebanon prompted the British Prime Minister's decision to put more distance between herself...
Reagan already flubbed the opportunity to lessen the dangerous cold war mentality that has descended on the superpowers by sending his vice president. George Bush, to Moscow in his place. Reagan's snub, coming on the heels of a similar turn-down upon Leonid Brezhnev's death, only underscores his lack of understanding about the finer points of superpower relations...
...could not be learned whether this meant the 72 year old Chemenko, a senior member of the ruling Politburo, had an edge in the succession When party chief Leonid I Brezhnev died Nov. 10 1982. Andropov was designated to head the funeral...